Mel Brooks Quotes

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'

I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

Spiritually, I'm Jewish.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.